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The Mesmerizing, Hard-Edge Paintings of Fanny Sanín

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. The Colombia-born artist Fanny Sanín has…

Why I Wear the Turban

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story On a spring day in 1993, my mom drove me to a hair salon in Linden, New Jersey, and got me a haircut. It was my first. I wasn’t yet three.…

The Astonishing Images of Diane Arbus

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Goings On newsletter, a guide to what we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. “Constellation,” a Diane Arbus exhibition at…

Lessons of Later-in-Life Fatherhood

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Forty-nine years ago, on what I recall as a Saturday morning when I was six and my father was fifty-six, I barged into the bathroom, as was my habit, and witnessed…

“Materialists” Is a Feast of Talking Pictures

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this story Words are actions, as anyone who’s ever been told “I do” or “You’re fired” knows. Yet, after nearly a century of talking pictures, most directors fail to depict talk as vigorously…

Restaurant Review: Cactus Wren Is Doing Its Own Thing

Save this storySave this storySave this storySave this storyYou’re reading the Food Scene newsletter, Helen Rosner’s guide to what, where, and how to eat. Sign up to receive it in your inbox. The chef duo Samuel Clonts and Raymond Trinh…